THE FIFTEEN SENSES OF MAN: UNDERSTANDING PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL PERCEPTION
What if the greatest limitation of mankind is not what we cannot see, but what we have never learned to perceive? Most people are introduced to the human senses through five familiar gateways: Sight. Hearing. Smell. Taste. Touch. These are the senses through which we physically encounter the world, but human perception is far more complicated than the simple five-senses model we were taught in school. We do not merely experience the world through our eyes and ears.... We experience it through memory. Through imagination. Through reasoning. Through intuition. Through the will. And within many spiritual traditions, human beings are also understood to possess forms of spiritual perception through which they discern realities that are not immediately accessible through ordinary physical observation. This gives us an interesting framework: 5 physical senses. 5 mental senses. 5 spiritual senses. Fifteen dimensions of human perception, but before we go deeper, we need to establish something i...